Lucas J.W. Johnson
Lucas is a freelance writer and game designer from Vancouver, BC. He writes things. Sometimes, they're even good.
Here he blogs about writing, queer issues, geekery, music, and life.
Check out his transmedia development business at Silverstring Media.
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Tag Archives: psychology
The Power of Story
An Exhaustive Essay Exploring a Theory of Myth as Story, and How Stories Affect Us Novelist Graham Swift wrote that, “only animals live in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man — let me … Continue reading
Mythology, Writing
Ananda K Coomaraswamy, Andrew Lang, Aristotle, Arnold van Gennep, Bernard Fontenelle, brain, Bronislaw Malinowski, C S Lewis, Carl Jung, Carl Sagan, Christopher Vogler, dream, essay, Euhemerus, G S Kirk, Giambattista Vico, Gorgias, Graham Swift, history, Homer, Hooke, James Frazer, Joseph Campbell, Karen Armstrong, Kath Filmer-Davies, Keith Oatley, literature, Lord Raglan, Max Muller, Mircea Eliade, myth, Nietzsche, Northrop Frye, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Philip Pullman, philosophy, Plato, psychology, Robert Atkinson, Robert Segal, Sigmund Freud, story, Victor Nell, William Robert Smith, Writing
Ode to Mom
My mom is an avid reader. She probably reads at least a book a week — way more than I do, certainly. But she’s the one who instilled me with a love of the written word. Ever since I can … Continue reading
Thinking on Paper
I’m in the midst of writing a paper on theories of myth for school. The topic I chose is ridiculously ambitious and more than any reasonable student would have opted to do. But I’m crazy, so, y’know. There’s a huge … Continue reading
Neuroscience FTW
This morning, I was writing an email to a professor with a proposal for a paper topic. In the middle of the email, I suddenly couldn’t think of a word I wanted to use. Try as I might, it wouldn’t … Continue reading
Dreamscape
A story someone had written for a workshop a little while ago dealt somewhat with dreams, and someone in the workshop made a point that the dreamer wouldn’t be able to feel something in the dream as written, because you … Continue reading
Day off
Yesterday, I had a day off. Which is not to say that I didn’t have school or work. I didn’t have school or work, but I don’t have school or work on any Mondays these days. Nor Sundays. But that … Continue reading
Calculating Emotion
The end of Season 4 of House is one of the more touching moments I’ve seen on TV in a long time. As I recall, my shirt looked like I had just come in out of the rain when it … Continue reading
